Kathleen Harrison Movies and Career Information

Kathleen Harrison (23 February 1892 – 7 December 1995) was a prolific English character actress best remembered for her role as Mrs. Huggett (opposite Jack Warner and Petula Clark) in a trio of British post-war comedies about a working class family's misadventures. However, to modern viewers she is better remembered as Mrs. Dilber, Scrooge's charwoman, opposite Alastair Sim in the 1951 film A Christmas Carol. Born in Blackburn, Lancashire, Harrison was one of the first 84 pupils of St Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England School in 1903. She studied at RADA from 1914–1915, then spent some years living in Argentina and Madeira before making her professional acting debut in UK in the 1920s. Harrison made her stage debut in The Constant Flirt, playing the character Mrs Judd at the Pier Theatre, Eastbourne in 1926. The following year she appeared in London's West End for the first time as Winnie in The Cage at the Savoy Theatre. Her subsequent West End plays included A Damsel in Distress, Happy Families, The Merchant and Venus, Lovers' Meeting, Line Engaged, Night Must Fall—also acting in the 1937 film version—The Winslow Boy and Watch It Sailor!. She had already made her film